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"Has anyone else near Lanchard Road seen a man in a clown mask chasing cars down the road and shouting at people," Liskeard resident Claire Graves asked on Facebook.

"Just had this happen to me. While I wasn't intimidated and just thought he was a bit of an idiot, others (the elderly or young kids) may be scared."

A local commented and said she saw the scary man in town "looking into people's car windows" and another one, Emma Hollister, said that he was walking around the town and scared her six-year-old child.

Killer clowns

A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall police said that the individual has not been reported to the force.

Last October, people wearing clown costumes terrorised inhabitants of many countries, including a large number of incidents across Cornwall.

The producers of the movie IT, an adaptation of Stephen King's famous novel, were blamed for the craze, with people suggesting it was part of their marketing strategy. King himself tried to put a brake on the phenomenon by asking people to stop the "hysteria".

In Cornwall, the killer clown fever resulted in more than 100 calls to police in just a few days.